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Late Night Open Thread: The Day the Music Died

By Jeralyn

It was 50 years ago today that Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were killed in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

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This is one event I wasn't old enough to have a clear memory of, I was just a kid, but I do remember slow-dancing to Donna around the sixth grade and knowing all the words to the Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace.

Here's Don McClean singing American Pie:

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.

But february made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn't take one more step.

I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).